Praise and honor is yours. For you have accomplished good goals and made right choices to come this far. You have shown diligence and perseverance. You have exercised enough patience to make it through to the end of this particular goal.
Included in all the right choices you made were the choices to do right things and the choices to avoid harmful things. You were wise enough to avoid making some wrong decisions. There were many open doors you could have gone down that you chose not to walk. You avoided many evil possibilities. You averted potential disaster. You sidestepped many pitfalls, and kept free from many snares. Yes, dear student, your success dependended not only on chosing the good but also on rejecting the evil. Isaiah 7:15 gives us that strong hint of how it takes two wings for the eagle to fly, it takes a polarity of understanding to make it through life successfully. You can continue to grow in chosing what is right and rejecting the evil.

Thanks be to God you have made it this far. By His mercy and grace, you shall continue to the finish in good success.
Accidents and deceptions have happened to many. Even many good and sincere who appeared to be doing so well have sometimes been hit severely and unexpectedly by hurtful events. The race is not to the swift or the strong, but to those to whom God shows grace and mercy. Read Romans 1 and 2 and give the glory to God that is due Him. Let your faith and confidence be in God and not in yourself. Thus you will find happiness more and more.

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Graduating seniors are getting ready to leave home and go out into the world. You will be facing new and different situations, some of which you are prepared for, and some you will have to figure out as you go. The more you study and know now before you leave home, the less chinks in the armour.
I know you care or you wouldn't even be reading this. Many of you have a sense of still looking for some foundational answers that you know you can trust. Something that doesn't change with each new situation in life.
That answer is Jesus Christ. He is the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. And He teaches us how we shall live. Deuteronomy 8:3 and Matthew 4:4 tells us how to live and not get trapped: " Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."
So if anyone acknowledge that Jesus is the answer, then let him also acknowledge that the way to follow Him is to do what He says. After all He clearly says, "If you love Me, do what I say."
He says, "Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." Put on the whole armour of God that you may be able to withstand the fiery darts of the enemy.
(See Ephesians 6:11-19)
Yes, you are going out into the world. And you will have many wonderful times. But from time to time there will be hard decisions to make, choices of what to do, right and wrong, life and death.
To have good faith and a clear conscience that you will not be hurt, the Bible is the one book to know.
Consider how many other books you've studied from cover to cover. You could fill a library with the books you've mastered. Now is the time to treasure up the best book of all into your heart. Then you will see and know and consider and understand (Isaiah 41:20) the things of life by the faith of God.
Jesus said, "...in the world you shall have tribulation, but fear not, for I have overcome the world." Knowing His way so we can follow Him, that is our armor against all the snares, pitfalls and fiery arrows of the enemy.
Even people who believe in God (as I did when I left high school) can be snared by the pressures of collegiate decisions ( as I was). How do I know this is true according to God's word? Because it is written, "My people are destroyed for their lack of knowledge."
We can believe in God and be one of His, but still not know to have on the armor we need for some particular situation that may confront us. That's where the fiery darts of the enemy can attack, in the place where we were ignorant or presumed on the grace of God.
Jesus Christ is our sufficiency, yes, true; and He is also the Captain of our faith, the leader of our soul. And He commands us to follow Him. He said, If you continue in My word, then are ye my disciples indeed." So let us continue in His word and see how it helps us in the world today. He has promised us victory in the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. Since the faith He wants us to have is the faith that comes of God, and not some imagination of our own, let us go on to study and show ourselves approved unto God even before we go on to college or marriage or career. In Jesus' name, Amen.

If you already know everything you need to know, then you prove to yourself that you don't know as you should. Learn that message from God. Put your trust in Him and not in yourself. You do not yet see Him as He sees you. For now we see as through a glass darkly, but then face to face. The then time when we shall see Him face to face and know Him as He knows us is after we have received our resurrection body.
Until then we know in part.

His grace is sufficient. True. But we should not be presumptuous. Presumptuous sin is still a sin. Presumption does not take the place of faith. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17) Many students fall on the rocks of life as they sail their good ship out of home port. Some lives are hurt badly within the first year after leaving home. Eighty percent of those who went to church while at home, quit after leaving home. Many have great problems with the love of their life, sweetheart or fiancee or money, trying to stay on course to get where they want to go. They make wrong decisions in the pressure of the moment and because they did not know enough scripture for guidance.
It's almost like minnows leaving the safety of home port to go into the big ocean where catfish and sharks lurk to lead them astray. College environments are often ripe with temptation for agnosticism, atheism, or some other spirit worship, psychic readings, rational atheism, relative values evolution, and many other seducing spirits. Why is this here, you ask? Because Jesus said, "...in the world you shall have tribulation, but fear not for I have overcome the world." And in another place the word of God says, "And this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith."

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So you will have good faith of God, you need to know the truth of God.
The truth of God from scripture and the truth of God from the things He has created are opened to you here. See the Creation Science reference and the Bible Study Menu.

To avoid snares and not be deceived, you need to understand the deceit of humanism. Failure to understand the deceits of humanism causes many to fall into confusion and eventually stumble into many problems that aren't necessary. See the articles on Patrick Henry, John Dewey, and Humanism.

To find good role models, take a look at our Christian heritage in America.

Students who know these things have an easier time in life than those who are ignorant and by their ignorance of these things fall into many snares and hurts. I don't want to see you get hurt. I want to see you have good success and prosper in your all you do. God bless you as you read.

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Summary Outline:

• Confusion of words
  
• Jesus -> Good Samaritan -> Humanitarian -> Humanism -> Atheism
• Many Christians have yoked their money together with atheists' money under the word Humanism to accomplish something they call humanitarian, thinking it is identical to the Good Samaritan.

Jesus said, when someone called Him good, "...only one is good." He was referring to a foundational Bible truth that God is good, and all good things come from Him. For example it is not 'good' in the Bible meaning to get something you want if that something causes your eternal soul to be in hell. This and many other subtle meanings have been so mixed and confused in today's language that people are confused on many issues without even knowing.

Now we get back to the theme of a progressive mixture of ideas from different source stories involving Jesus, the good samaritan, humanitarianism, humanism, and atheism. These words have been mixed so much by people who do not keep the Bible teaching of "holding fast the form of sound words" and "not mixing the seed", that much of the Christians' problems today are caused by their own joining together with humanist-atheist funds to accomplish atheist building projects in the name of humanism which Christians associate with the good samaritan.

Atheists like to gain acceptability from Christians by masking their identity under the word Humanism and sliding over to a word spelled Humanitarianism which is so strongly identified with the good samaritan. Thusly, the Christian money is used world wide to increase the atheistic foundations of community projects.

Atheists have written in national publications of theirs that the big advantage of the Christian church is its support for private individuals in time of need. The close association of people helping people in the name of Jesus. Well, now the atheists are using humanitarian ideals to get Christian dollars to build up organizations that do their deeds without the name of Jesus. So you can see my point. Christians are defeating themselves by joing together with atheists in doing works they think are for God but the atheists are using the works to strengthen their own management of affairs independent of the name Jesus.